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By Leticia Rodriguez This blog was originally published in MSPmentor on June 11, 2012. The word ‘team’ is tossed around a lot in many businesses. The sales team, the engineering team, the marketing team ­­­­­— these are all great ways to describe the different groups that help make up a company. But when talking about [...]

This blog is third in the series “Leading for Success.” Also see How to Motivate Your Team and How to Build Team Chemistry. Understanding how we’re going to be measured and how success in one’s job or department will be defined is important to everyone. And yet, selecting those critical measurements to drive performance and [...]

What does it take to create a really great place to work?  A place where people want to be? An environment in which brilliant, highly motivated people can excel? It takes more than perfectly designed buildings and glistening new computers. It takes more than the usual things that all good companies spend a great deal [...]

This blog is second in the series “Leading for Success.” Motivating a team might be compared to creating a sculpture. The artist is able to see beyond the raw material to the potential in the mass, and then carefully carve away extra material to realize a fine piece of art.  To extend this analogy into [...]

There are a number of core principles that come together when leading teams. Among these is maintaining overall chemistry, keeping the team motivated, setting critical success factors, measuring team results, and sustaining high performance. While there is no one recipe for success, this blog series will outline some of the methods that have worked well [...]